(高二英语试题)云南省部分学校2021-2022学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题汇编：阅读理解.docx

云南省局部学校2021.2022学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题分类汇编阅读理解云南师范大学附属中学2021-2022学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题（解析版）第一节（共15小题；每题2分，总分值30分）阅读以下短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最正确选项。At the time of year when the sun's daily appearance is often short-lived, the following warm places in Washington State are your first choice.Alderbrook Resort & SpaLess than a two-hour drive from Seattle, located on the edge of the Hood Canal, a nature-filled retreat （休养处）is waving. Seals slide along the waters of the Alderbrook dock （码头），playing a game of “Go Fish“ with dive-bombing seabirds. As you sit on the shaking dock just minutes after arrival, you are already in a quieter world.Suncadia ResortA mountain escape awaits just over the pass on 1-90, about 80 miles east of Seattle. The resort's annual Winterfest lasts through January 2, full of holiday celebrations and winter recreation, from cross-county skiing and snow mobile tours to ice skating and snowshoe tours.Willows LodgeTwenty miles from Seattle, this luxury lodge is nestled into the centre of Woodinville Wine Country. Situated on five landscaped acres that border the Sammamish River, the Northwest-style lodge is within walking distance of more than 35 tasting rooms. When you step into the lodge, fire crackles and hot apple rolls welcome your arrival with a celebratory air.Seattie-area RetreatsSalish Lodge & Spa is a scenic 30-minute drive from Seattle, bringing you to a lodge integrating Old World atmosphere and modem elegance. Get out to enjoy the surrounding nature, hiking near the rushing 270-foot-tall Snoqualmie Falls or trying activities like fly fishing and snowshoeing. Head to North Bend fbr a slice of Twede's Cafe strawberry pie.1. Where can you get the leisure from sea life?probably not right.8. What kind of girl can be described as “eye candy”?A. BeautifulB. OptimisticC. HardworkingD. Warmhearted9. What does the underlined word "swallowing“ mean in English?A. Making.B. Taking.C. Selling.D. Testing.10. Which of the following expressions means you are doing something with wrong intention?A. Hard candies.B. Candy coat.C. A kid in a candy store.D. As easy as taking candy from a baby.11. What is the best title of the passage?A. Candy. Enjoy It or Avoid ItB. Various Candies in EnglishC. The Best Candy in the WorldC. The Best Candy in the WorldD. Candies' Different FlavorsKids spend a lot of time looking at screens. And some parents worry. But a new study argues against the anxiety parents may feel."Parents are hearing a message that social media, digital technology use is causing very serious and harmful problems like depression, like suicide-related behaviors,Candice Odgers, professor of psychological science at the University of California said. "But the idea is that if you shut off social media, you could in fact be making a situation worse. Parents are really being sent a message that is not supported by anything scientifically.”Odgers and her colleagues looked at the screen-related behavior of 400 public school students in North Carolina aged 10 to 14. The researchers found that the kids spent between almost five hours to seven hours per day on their devices. That's a lot of hours but the researchers didn*t find connection between the amount of time that young people spent online using digital technologies and mental health signs like depression, or anxiety. They found that young people who sent more text messages actually reported better mental health.This was a small association, but it reflects what other people have found: the people who are very connected offline, who use technology in the positive ways to stay connected, often are more connected online as well and experiencing better mental health.So why the fears about screen time? Odgers argues that the methods for previous studies may have led to false conclusions. When given a survey, the kids were often asked to recall, over the past six months, "How often are you online?” and “Have you ever felt depressed”. And the relation between those two things has been used to spread a lot of fear around the connection between social media use and things like depression, yet 99.5% of the reasons that kids differ in their depression is due to something other than the time they spend online.12. The new study is mainly about the relation between.A. kids, screen time and their eyesightB. kids' screen time and their depressionC. social media use and kids' mental healthD. Internet environment and kids* mental health13. What does Odgers think of the message parents received?B. It makes much sense.D. It reveals parents5 ignorance.B. Kids staying unconnected offline.D. Kids positively using digitalB. To challenge a common belief.D. To encourage more screen time.A. It misleads people.C. It was confirmed by science.14. What kind of kids bear better mental health?A. Kids spending less time online.C. Kids shutting off social media.technology.15. What's the main purpose of the text?A. To present a social phenomenon.C. To draw attention to kids' health.云南省凤庆县第一中学2021-2022学年高二下学期期中考英语试题（解析版） 第一节（共15小题；每题2分，总分值30分）阅读以下短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最正确选项。AToo Much Happinessby Alice MunroKovalevskaya was a 19th-century mathematician at a time when women were not allowed in most of Europe to attend university. She married a man who promised to take her to Germany to study. She made major contributions to the field and became the first woman in Russia to obtain adoctorate in mathematics.The Ore Miner's Wifeby Karl lagnemmaIt is about a miner who thinks he's discovered the evidence to the problem: construct a square, equal in area to a given circle. His wife, not knowing what has suddenly taken his attention and his time, fears he is being unfaithful. It is a moving exploration of the joys of entering a problem whole and the desire and impossibility of truly knowing those we love.Stories of Your Life and Othersby Ted ChiangThis collection contains several maths stories. The one I suggest is Division By Zero, about Jane Parkinson, a brilliant German mathematician. To her great despair, she ends up proving that mathematics is inconsistent and is able to prove that any two numbers are equal. A beautiful, thoughtprovoking(发人深省的)story about belief, understanding and faith.The Housekeeper and the Professorby Yoko Ogawa It's about a woman who comes to work for a once-great mathematician. Due to a brain injury, he has only 80 minutes of short一term memory available to him before he forgets everything. It is filled with beautiful maths, simply and clearly described alongside finely drawn relationships between the characters.1. Who is a pioneering woman mathematician?A. Yoko Ogawa.C. Kovalevskaya.2. What is special about The Ore Miner's Wife?A. It involves love.C. It is written by a miner.3. What is the author's purpose in writing the text?A. To instruct.C. To research.(Posted by Catherine Chung, a great writer)B. Jane Parkinson.D. Catherine Chung.B. It is a story series.D. It is full of equal numbers.B. To entertain.D. To recommend.Jill stares at the wall, her fingers tapping rhythmically on her desk. Pedro, her lab mate,hesitates before whispering, ctHey Jill, what's up?" Jill opens her mouth slowly before answering with the friendliest tone she can muster, "Nothing, apart from tons of anger I am trying to control. It's not about you, so don't worry.”“I assume you would like to know what made me angry,“ Jill says as they sit in a quiet corner of their busy campus. Pedro nods. "People who act like robots and don't care about the feelings of others,“ she tells him. “That's what made me angry.”Jill had been busy writing an application for her first research fund. The deadline was approaching, but she wanted to get some feedback from her advisor before sending it off. She was happy when she got the draft back just a few hours later, but she didn't like what she saw. "He sent me 15 pages full of pure and unfiltered criticism （未经过的批评）Pedro falls silent and thinks about how he can approach the situation. Finally, he turns to Jill. “Do you want to know the name I secretly called him during my first few months working in his lab? Mr. Ice Age. I found him super-cold. But now that I've worked with him for a few years, I also know him as a kind-hearted person. It9s not all pure gold, but his character is upright and strong and he cares about his lab members.”"It's true that when he gives feedback, he's very direct. But I think it's a cultural thing,“ Pedro continues. "He grew up in Germany, where the cultural styles around criticism are different from here. When I was over there, I took classes from other professors who were like that as well. They don't sugarcoat their criticism.What does the underlined word “muster" mean in Paragraph 1?A. Reply.B. Collect.C. Pretend.D. Control.4. What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 3?A. Summarize the previous paragraphs.B. Provide some advice for the readers.C. Add some background information.D. Introduce a new topic for discussion.5. Who does the underlined word "He" in Paragraph 5 refer to?A. JilLB. Pedro.C. Jilfs teacher.D. Pedro's classmate.6. What can we conclude from the story?A. Bitter medicine cures sickness.B. Two heads are better than one.C. A friend in need is a friend indeed.D. Regular communication is the bestteacher.CPlant-based foods are good sources of healthy nutrients. These include different types of dietary fibre, vitamins, minerals, and a range of6phytonutrients, which plants produce to help them grow or protect them from diseases and pests.A review of research published in May 2021 found those who ate the most plant foods were less likely to die from any cause over follow-up time periods that varied across the studies from 5 to 25 years, compared to those who ate the least.Tomatoes are a fruit. They,re rich in vitamin C and "lycopene”, which is a carotenoid. Carotenoids are pigments produced by plants and give vegetables their bright colours.A review of six trials asked people to consume tomato products equivalent to 1 - 1.5 large tomatoes or 1 -1.5 cups of tomato juice daily for about six weeks. The researchers found people who did this had reduced blood levels of triglycerides (a type of fat in your blood that increases heart disease risk), as well as lower total and “bad” cholesterol levels, compared to those who didn't have any tomatoes.Another review of 11 studies tested the effect of tomatoes and lycopene on blood pressure. Researchers found consuming any tomato products led to a large decrease in systolic blood pressure (the first number that measures the pressure at which the heart pumps blood). However, there was no effect on the diastolic pressure (the second number which is the pressure in the heart when it relaxes). In the group who had high blood pressure to begin with, both systolic and diastolic blood pressure decreased after eating tomato products compared to placebos.A review of studies included a total of 260,000 men and found those with the highest intakes of cooked tomatoes, tomato sauces and tomato-based foods had a 15 一 20% lower risk of developing cancer compared to those with the lowest tomato intakes. Keep in mind connection doesn't necessarily mean cause and effect, though.7. What does the first paragraph focus on?A. Vitamins and minerals are healthy nutrients.B. Phytonutrients prevent plants fromdiseases.D. Phytonutrients help plants growC. Plant-based foods contain healthy nutrients.healthily.8. Why do tomatoes look bright red?A. Because of placebos.B. Because of lycopene.C. Because of triglycerides.D. Because of phytonutrients.9. How does the author support the theme of the text?A. By analyzing causes.C. By explaining statistical data.11. What is the best title for the text?A. A Beneficial Plant-based FoodC. Researches into Deadly DiseasesHealthB. By stating arguments.D. By providing research results.B. A Source of Healthy NutrientsD. Connections between Food andDA researcher at Ben-Gurion University conducted the first study of hand-clapping songs, uncovering a direct link between those activities and the development of important skills in children and young adults, including university students.“We found that children in the first, second and third grades who sing these songs prove skills absent in children who don't take part in similar activities,explains Dr. Idit Sulkin. "We also found that children who naturally perform hand-clapping songs in the yard during break have neater handwriting, write better and make fewer spelling errors. As part of the study, Sulkin went to several elementary school classrooms and engaged the children in either a board of education conducting music appreciation program or hand-clapping songs training - each lasting a period of 10 weeks.“Within a very short period of time, the children who until then hadn't taken part in such activities caught up in their cognitive abilities to those who did J she said. But this finding only surfaced for the group of children undergoing hand-clapping songs training. The result led Sulkin to conclude that hand-clapping songs should be made a necessary part of education for children aged 6 to 10, for the purpose of motor and cognitive training.During the study, Dr. Sulkin interviewed school and kindergarten teachers, visited their classrooms and joined the children in singing. Her goal was to figure out why children are fascinated by singing and clapping up until the end of third grade, when these entertainments are abruptly abandoned and replaced with sports. tThis fact explains a developmental process thechildren are going through J Dr. Sulkin observes. "The hand-clapping songs appear naturally inchildren's lives at the age of 7, and disappear at the age of IO.”Sulkin says that no in-depth, long-term study has been conducted on the effects that hand-clapping songs have on children's motor and cognitive skills. However, the relationship between music and intellectual development in children has been studied extensively, causing countless parents to obtain a “Baby Mozart“ CD fbr their children.12. What conclusion does Dr. Sulkin make?A. Hand-clapping songs training is short.B. Kids with hand-clapping songs training write well.C. Kids with hand-clapping songs training are smarter.D. Hand-clapping songs should be part of kid education.13. How old are kids naturally performing hand-clapping songs?B. At the age of 7.A. At the age of 6.C. At the age of 8.D. At the age of 10.14. Why do parents tend to buy a “Baby Mozart" CD?A. To help their kids develop better.B. To support their kids' dream.C. To satisfy their kids' hobby.D. To let their kids sleep well.15. What is the text probably continued with?B. Shortcomings